Definition of Tearless

1. Adjective. Free from tears.

Exact synonyms: Dry-eyed
Similar to: Dry
Antonyms: Tearful

Definition of Tearless

1. a. Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

Definition of Tearless

1. Adjective. Without tears. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tearless

1. being without tears [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tearless

tearier
teariest
tearily
teariness
tearinesses
tearing
tearing away
tearing down
tearing mode
tearingly
tearings
tearjerker
tearjerkers
tearjerking
tearjerkingly
tearless (current term)
tearlessly
tearlessness
tearlike
tearoom
tearooms
tearpit
tearpits
tearproof
tears
tears away
tears of wine
tearsheets
tearstain

Literary usage of Tearless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Achilles, who in Elysium inherits a tearless life, déchires in Erebus that he would rather toil as a peasant on the earth than be a king in that gloom} ..."

2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Death of a Son — A Warrior's tearless Eyes — Real Griff— Mourning for a Dead Wife — What Happens at the Death of a Chief—How the Squaws Mourn—A Chorus ..."

3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1882)
"In " Sackcloth and Ashes " — The Mark of God's Displeasure — Parental Anguish — The Death of a Son — A Warrior's tearless Eyes — Real Grief — Mourning for a ..."

4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Shame, tearless grief, and stifling wrath, io And loathing fear, as if my path A serpent stretched across. And anguish of disgrace. All love of home, ..."

5. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"The "tearless Battle" between the Arcadians and Lacedaemonians. § 13. Third invasion of Peloponnesus by Epaminondas. § 14. Mission of Pelopidas to the court ..."

6. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"The tearless Battle, won by Archidamus son of Agesi- laus. Expedition of the Thebans into Thessaly, under Pelopidas. Embassies from the principal Crecían ..."

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